The One with the 2Peas Happy Halloween Layout

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

I love "happy email." That's what I call it when I get unexpected emails from people with happy news, etc. Pretty self-explanatory :) The email I got from Jamie Sorenson over at 2Peas a couple weeks ago was definitely a piece of happy email. I was asked to make a Halloween layout for their SpookCRAFTular event - heck yes I will!Check out this fancy shmancy logo that was made to go along with my project (I didn't make it, but whoever did, props cuz it's cool!):And here is the layout I came up with:HAPPY HALLOWEEN (me & eric)Supplies: Cardstock, patterned paper, chipboard (borders, letters), Halloween stickers, badges, felt shapes, and rub ons, letter stickers, pen, adhesive: American Crafts; Plastic Halloween charms: Dress It Up; Jewels: Doodlebug Design; Spray mist: Tattered Angels; Sewing machine: Brother; Thread: Coats & ClarkJournaling says: Halloween has always been my favorite holiday. Maybe it's because of the ridiculous amounts of free candy. Maybe it's the picking, planning, and making of costumes. Maybe it's the thrill of watching scary movies. Maybe it's all decorations and cooler weather. Maybe it's because it's the first holiday of the season. It's probably all of the above.How to recreate this layout: Start with a 12x12 sheet of white cardstock. Spray blue mist on the top right corner, green mist on the left middle edge, and red mist on the bottom right corner. Place chipboard border stickers around the edges. Cut out spider webs from patterned paper, accent the center of each with a black jewel, then adhere with pop dots over the sprayed parts. Add Halloween-themed dimensional felt shapes, badges, stickers, rub ons, plastic charms, and journaling spots cut from patterned paper around each spider web as shown. Adhere four 2 x 3" photos to the middle. Create a title from mixed colors and textures of Thickers. Using a pencil, draw journaling lines then straight stitch over the pencil lines using a sewing machine with black thread; erase any pencil lines still showing. Write journaling with a black pen above the stitched lines. Admire your work :)Okay, I'm off to pack my hospital bag. No, I'm not in labor, but perhaps it will be the ball that gets this process rolling...!!

welcome!

I’m from Seattle. Chris is from Denver. We met at BYU and got married in 2007 in Nauvoo, IL. Chris graduated from the USC School of Dentistry in 2013 through an Army scholarship and then we were stationed in Grafenwöhr, Germany for 4 years! We visited 43 countries while living in Europe and miss it every day! We now live in Littleton, CO where Chris works at his dream job as a dentist at Old Town Dental. I’m a stay-at-home-working-mom to our son Fox and daughter Jane. Scrapbooking is my passion and I have my own signature collections with Pink Paislee calledFANCY FREE, TAKE ME AWAY, OH MY HEART, TURN THE PAGE, PICK-ME-UP, WHIMSICAL & HORIZON. I’m a teacher at Big Picture Classes, on the Scrapbook & Cards Today design team, I make and release 10 new Silhouette cut files every week, and I have an Etsy shop on the side. I love teaching in-person scrapbooking and bookbinding workshops whenever and wherever I can! Thanks for stopping by!